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On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:57:43 +0100, Java Jive
wrote:
I thought this OT thread had ended but coincidntally I have just come
across this bit of breaking news (see below)
That's all very well but the BBC in particular are notorious for
selecting only one side of the...

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigned after the company learned of
what it called a past, consensual relationship with an employee.
Intel said Thursday that the relationship was in violation of
the company's non-fraternization policy, which applies to all
managers. Spokesman William Moss said Intel...

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:59:13 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio
wrote:
requires BIOS updates
but squillions of fanboize have been sold obsolete
motherboards, can't even boot to flash the BIOS
oh the egg on the face!!!!
Stinking retard, you can update the bios, as long as you have...

Ever seen the parody Intel Inside logo images
like "Jesus inside", "Devil inside", "Satan inside"
or "Linux inside"? There's a good change it might
have been made @ http://intel-inside.signgenerator.net
More image templates on http://www.customsigngenerator.com

The always outspoken Linus Torvalds, best known for his
continuing work on the innermost code of Linux systems, has
harsh words to say and accusations to level against Intel. His
evaluation of Intel’s latest proposed fix for the
Meltdown/Spectre issue: “the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER...

In article
Nomen Nescio wrote:
Subject: What Linux architectures are not susceptible to
meltdown or spectre
The problem is chip based, not OS based.
Right. But there are other chips on which Linux runs,...

allegedly this was discovered a while back, so it can't be triggered too often.
Anyway I turn off hyperthreading as I doubt operating cisterns are proficient
at scheduling all the different processors (Bulldozer, Zen, HCC Xeons) as well as simple i5/Phenom II style CPUs.

It looks like AMD have caused Intel to pull their finger out at last,
after giving us teeny improvements the last few tick-tocks.
Must be worried about Threadripper, so they announce extreme i9 with
16 even 18 cores. But wait, they have only revealed half the specs....
How much cache will it have,...

On Saturday, 6 October 1990 00:01:47 UTC+5:30, Joachim Riedel wrote:
We now use the INTEL-Package:
ASM86, LOC86, LIB86, OH86, CREF86 and LINK86
as a develop-system for 8086/80186 programs on IBM/PC (MS-DOS,PC-DOS).
Our target system is a stand-alone numeric control (ANC39...

Just out of interest, how does a hardware bug in a CPU get fixed by a software BIOS update? Isn't the bug a physical misconnection in the circuits?
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